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Indeed, it seems to me that this explanation of White's appointment-that is, that he was appointed and allowed to remain in office for more than a year in order to help the FBI trap him as a spy-raises more questions than it answers...
With such reports at hand, four alternatives would normally suggest themselves : 1) bring charges against the Government employees, 2) fire them, 3) try to trap them, or 4) place them in positions where they would no longer have access to strategic information or influence on policy. There is no record that any of these steps were taken. White and others named in the reports retained access to secrets. None of them were trapped by actions after 1946. The case against them today is substantially what Hoover presented in the three reports...
...meter picks out the one that is going fastest.) At the same time, a graphic recorder sets down the speed over a distance of 150 feet in red ink. The operating officers telephone a description of the speeding car to a highway patrol station just ahead, and the trap is sprung...
...Frederick Russell Kappel, 51, took over as president of Western Electric Co. Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's manufacturing and supply company, replacing Stanley Bracken, 63, who stepped up to chairman. Kappel, who worked his way through the University of Minnesota ('24) waiting on tables and playing the trap drums in a dance band, started with the Bell System by digging holes, setting poles and stringing wire. He climbed up the pole through engineering and operating departments, and in 1949 took over as boss of A.T. & T.'s Long Lines Department. Shortly afterward, he became vice president...
Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe, cast as three little lovebirds in search of a gilded cage, decide that the best way to catch a millionaire is to set a trap. They set one, accordingly, in a sublet apartment on Manhattan's Sutton Place-a happy hunting ground for mink, the script says-and bait it with everything they've got, which is mostly cheesecake. Millionaires apparently like the bait as well as most fellows, and pretty soon they are wolfing away at the door. In the end, of course, the filthy lucre loses out to nice...